I believe that investing in a skilled health care workforce will benefit all of us.

That is why I joined my colleagues in a bipartisan effort beginning last fall to modernize and reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act.

If we do not take a comprehensive approach to preparing all of America's workers for the demands of a competitive and constantly changing economy, many will continue to fall behind, and that is a price our Nation cannot afford to pay.

The statistics do not lie. In 1990, there were 1.2 million women veterans. Today, there are 1.8 million.

The VA plans to have gynecologists available at each of the VA's 144 health care systems by 2012.

Well, do you agree with the statement that I made that we've actually had a decrease in the number of women seeking gender-specific health care services at the VA from last year to this year?

The report's recommendations, I think, have been well-received throughout the veterans' community.

The Administration wants to create, as you know, a government health insurance option. And my fear is that if it is like those in other countries, it will result in rationing of health care, limiting choice, and erosion of quality.

Let me conclude by saying if the SEC has no one who could understand the Bernie Madoff trading strategy, how are they possibly going to be able to understand a private corporation and its counterparty's decision to mitigate business risk?

Those are some policy concerns that we think the Congress should look into.

It is vitally important to the American people that everyone in this country respond to that form.

The data collected by the Census Bureau is vitally important to the calculation of funding levels and appropriations in Federal programs.

I appreciate your leadership within the Latino or Hispanic community to say participate.

Thank you, Chairman Clay. Thank you all for your testimony.

I think we need to work with the countries in the region that have a proven track record in rehabilitating the terrorists to accept detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay.

We need to be mindful of the fact that the countries in the region, such as Yemen, are currently incapable of mitigating the threat posed by the returned Guantanamo Bay detainees.

The Philadelphia VAMC's brachytherapy program has been suspended since June 2008.

Our state is ravaged by the fallout from irresponsible lending--too many loans that never should have been made.